EBSCO Information Services

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Literary Reference Center
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EBSCOs Literary Reference Center (LRC)

• EBSCOs LRC can complete your librarys
  collection of online literary resources
• Your library now owns Gales Literature Resource
  Center (LRC), which consists mainly of Gale-owned
  content
• Full text of author biographies, plot summaries,
  literary criticism, etc. from various Gale-owned
  imprints
• EBSCOs LRC can add full-text content from the
  top literary publishers not owned by Gale

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EBSCOs LRC can add full-text content from the
top literary publishers not owned by GaleAll of
MagillOnLiterature Plus, including the entire
Masterplots series from Salem Press

• Masterplots (12 volumes)
• Masterplots II (58 volumes)
• Cyclopedia of World Authors (5 volumes)
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters (5 volumes)
• Magills Literary Annual (32 volumes)
• Magills Guide to Science Fiction Fantasy
  Literature (4 volumes)

• Magill Book Reviews (6,800)
• Critical Surveys (35 volumes)
• Magills Choice Notable Poets (3 volumes)
• Magills Choice Shakespeare
• Magills Choice 100 Masters of Mystery
  Detective Fiction (2 volumes)
• World Philosophers and Their Works (3 volumes)

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EBSCOs LRC can add full-text content from the
top literary publishers not owned by GaleThe
entire Bloom Series from Chelsea House, edited
by Harold Bloom (completely AI, new full text
added regularly)

• Blooms BioCritiques (38 volumes)
• Blooms Guides (20 volumes)
• Blooms Literary Places (2 volumes)
• Blooms Major Dramatists (24 volumes)
• Blooms Major Literary Characters(15 volumes)
• Blooms Major Novelists (28 volumes)

• Blooms Major Poets (42 volumes)
• Blooms Major Short Story Writers (32 volumes)
• Blooms Modern Critical Interpretations (106
  volumes)
• Blooms Modern Critical Views (143 volumes)
• Blooms Notes (33 volumes)
• Blooms Period Studies (9 volumes)

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EBSCOs LRC can add full-text content from the
top literary publishers not owned by
GaleHundreds of literary reference works from
university presses, societies and for-profit
publishers

• Andrews McMeel Publishing
• Arte Publico Press
• Beacham Group LLC
• Branden Publishing
• Cambridge University Press
• Columbia University Press
• Continuum International Publishing
• Eakin Press
• Great Neck Publishing
• Lerner Publishing Group

• M.E. Sharpe Inc.
• Mason Crest Publishers
• Morgan Reynolds Inc.
• Oxford University Press
• Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
• Princeton University Press
• Routledge Ltd.
• Texas AM University Press
• Texas Folklore Society
• University Press of Florida

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EBSCOs LRC can add full-text content from the
top literary publishers not owned by
GaleHundreds of literary reference works from
university presses, societies and for-profit
publishers

• Literary Encyclopedia, The
• Literary History of England (2 volumes)
• Masterworks of Asian Literature
• New Princeton Encyclopediaof Poetry and Poetics
• Oxford Illustrated Historyof English Literature
• Research Guide to Biography Criticism
• Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets
• Routledge Companion to Russian Literature
• The Complete Russian Folktale (6 volumes)
• Whos Who in Non-Classical Mythology

• Columbia Companion to the20th American Short
  Story
• Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope
• Continuum Encyclopediaof American Literature
• Continuum Encyclopediaof British Literature
• Encyclopedia of Literature Criticism
  (Routledge)
• English Novel in History (3 volumes)
• From Romanticism to Critical Theory
• Handbook of African American Literature

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Features available to your library with the
addition of EBSCOs LRC
EBSCO LRC (December 2006)
Both LRCs
Category
Gale LRC
Author Biographies In-Depth 3,000 13,000 16,000
Brief 133,000 127,000 260,000 Total 136,000 140,0
00 276,000 Plot Summaries, Synopses, 4,329 12,500
16,839 Work Overviews Literary Criticism
Essays 38,000 100,000 138,000 Full-Text
journals 260 350 450 Citation Tool NO YES YES
Estimate (overlap comparison not yet available
for journals)
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Comparison of Literary Resources Continued
EBSCO LRC (December 2006)
BothLRCs
Category
Gale LRC
Full-Text Book Reviews 370,000 515,000 650,000 F
ull-Text Poems 0 30,000 30,000 Full-Text Short
Stories 0 13,500 13,500 Full-Text Classic
Books 0 7,500 7,500 Author Interviews 320 2,500 2,
820 Glossary of Literary Terms NO Timeline YES
YES Detailed
YES Detailed
YES withGeographic contexts
YES withGeographic contexts
As a distinct article type, searchable in this
database Estimated
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Some Key LRC Features

• Browse most studied authors and works
• Brings user to pre-selected record
• Focuses user on information desired
• Result lists are segmented by content types
• Biographies
• Literary Criticism
• Plot Summaries
• Book Reviews
• Author Interviews
• Reference Books
• Periodicals
• Poems
• Short Stories
• Ability to limit by major sources such as
  Masterplots
• Key books are highlighted, with a rotating focus
  on key authors
• Literary/Historical Timeline for context and
  perspective

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Thank You